CVE-2016-6185

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6185
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6185.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6185
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-02T14:59:02.943Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:13:12.931495Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The XSLoader::load method in XSLoader in Perl does not properly locate .so files when called in a string eval, which might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse library under the current working directory.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/perl/perl5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/perl/perl5
Events
Introduced
7c499b7fd47e7232467f4cb7ffd590dc0edf2168
Fixed
443bd156a6baaf7a8fe6b6b05fcf6c4178140ed2
Introduced
2c5484a6fb758fd9bd9f56d504186972d12dd338
Fixed
c137098022dcef5e7ea32608e5299276efea6457
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "5.23.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.24.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "5.25.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "5.25.3"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

if-0.*
if-0.0605
v5.*
v5.23.0
v5.23.1
v5.23.2
v5.23.3
v5.23.4
v5.23.5
v5.23.6
v5.23.7
v5.23.8
v5.23.9
v5.24.0
v5.24.0-RC1
v5.24.0-RC2
v5.24.0-RC3
v5.24.0-RC4
v5.24.0-RC5
v5.24.1-RC1
v5.24.1-RC2
v5.24.1-RC3
v5.24.1-RC4
v5.24.1-RC5
v5.25.0
v5.25.1
v5.25.2

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "22"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "23"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "24"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "10"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "11.3"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "17.10"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6185.json"